Water-closet



(No Model,)

D. 1). BUICK. WATER CLOSET- v PatentedApr. 28, 1896.

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DAVID D. BUICK, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

WATER-CLOSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,931, dated April 28, 1896.

Application filed June 27,1895. Serial No. 554,172. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID D. BUICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of WVayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Olosets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates more specifically to the construction of the hinge used for connecting the seat and cover with the crock; and it is my object to provide means of attachment that may be readily adjusted to compensate for any irregularities in the crock, so as to bring the hinges always in line.

My invention therefore consists in the peculiar construction of a hinge-post and means for securing it to the crock, as more fully hereinafter described.

I11 the drawings, Figure 1 is a rear. perspective view of a Water-closet to which my improvement is applied. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical central section through the hinge.

A is the crock or bowl of a water-closet. B is the seat. 0 is the cover, and D are the usual perforated ears or flanges to which the hingeposts are secured. It frequently happens that in the manufacture of crooks of this kind these flanges D become warped, so that one is lower than the other. This would throw the hinges out of line with each other and necessitate the placing of a washer under the base of one of the posts, which greatly detracts from the ornamental appearance of the hinge. To overcome this difliculty I have devised a hinge-post provided with an adjustable base-ring, which may be raised or lowered to compensate for any inequality of height in the flanges and which is of the following construction:

E is a hinge-post, preferably provided at its upper end with an eye a, on opposite sides of which are arranged the seat member F and cover member G of the hinge, pivotally securedthereto by means of the bolt H.

b is the shank of the post, adapted to pass through the aperture D in the ear D and screw-threaded at its lower end to engage with the clamping-nut I.

J is a base-ring longitudinally adjustably secured upon the posts, preferably by providing the latter with the screw-threaded portion 0, with which a correspondingly-screwthreaded portion (Z of the ring is adapted to engage. Above the threaded portion a of the post is a plain cylindrical portion 6, and the ringJ is provided with a corresponding cylindrical recess f.

K are washers of rubber or other elastic material having the convex surfaces g 011 one side fitting the concave bcarin gs h in the ears D. i

The hinge thus constructed may be readily attached to the crock, and if one of the ears D is higher or lower than the other the baseriug on that side may be adjusted up or down upon its posts to bring the eye of the latter in line with the eye of the other post. This adjustment will in no way interfere with the ornamental appearance of the hinge, as the screw-threaded portion of the post is never visible and the cylindrical portion 6 so closely fits the recess f in the base that the latter appears to be an integral part of the post.

What I claim as my invention is-- 1. The combination with a post forming one member of a hinge and having a shank adapted to pass through a supporting-flange on the crock, of a base-ring provided with means for adj ustably securing it on said post, and having a recess in which the post is seated, and a clamping-nut, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the post It having the screw-threaded portion 0, the plain cylindricalportion 6 above the portion 0, and the shank b, of the base-ring provided with the threaded aperture d and the recess f, and the clamping-nut upon the shank, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the post E having the screw-threaded portion 0, the plain cylindrical portion e and shank b, the base-ring J provided with the screw-threaded aperture d 5 and recess f, the washers K having the convex surface g, and the clamping-nut I, substantially as described.

4:. In a water-closet, the combination with an apertured support and the seat, of a hinge- IOO post passing through the aperture and hav lower end of the post, substantially as deing threaded opposite ends, a lateral projecscribed. 10 tion on the .upper end of the post, a base- In testimony whereof I affix my signature ring having a threaded engagement with the in presence of two Witnesses.

5 post rotatively supported on the support and DAVID D. BUICK.

having its upper section extended above the \Vitnesses: plane of the lower portion of the projection JAMES WVHITTEMORE,

on the post, and a securing device on the O. F. BARTHEL. 

